So tired from this morning. Threw on a flick, went to sleep. Woke up at the grand finale. Through a typically wild series of events, the bad guys...who, by the way, ALWAYS somehow have millions upon millions upon millions of dollars...which makes you wonder why anyone would want to be a good guy...the bad guys have several helicoptors. The good guys use a tank (don't ask) to blow one of them out of the sky which drops on a conveniently parked one nearby to create a circle of fire.
The primary villain, unlike the innocent (relatively) helicoptor pilot, walks away unscathed so he and Jet Li, the hero, can have their final confrontation. For some inexplicable reason it is raining on these two guys...even though there is NO OTHER RAIN in the movie, including in the 2 "side-fights" going on in the conclusion. Whatever.
So let's set the scene: Jet Li v villain one on one in a circle of fire with the rain falling. Actually, pretty cool visual.
Which leads me to the rather rambling point; I am always dropping myself notes about potential story ideas so after I finish Dreamcatchers, the coffee table book with Jr. Woodchuckette, and the trilogy, I will have more projects. And this gave me another fantasy novel type idea.
The best authors (Weis & Hickman, Stackpole head that list for me) typically have something that sets them apart. They create a new style of world that has its own rules. Weis & Hickman started a huge genre with the Dragonlance world, did a great job again in the Deathgate Cycle, topped themselves with the Darksword series, Terry Brooks did it in his Sword of Shannara series, and so forth...completely realized, functional worlds with that special "it" that makes it feel special.
So here is my idea for a world with that "something" to set it apart. Obviously, because I am me, it will be a world full of magic, the classic and nerdly sword and sworcery genre. Simply, in this one, duels, whether magical or sword...ical, will be strongly affected by geometry and weather. Combatants will strive to create combat spaces consisting of their preferred shapes (triangle, circle, rhombus) and weather conditions...which will grant them a measure of extra power. Maneuvering your opponent into, say, a series of canyons that, viewed from above forms an isoceles triangle, might grant the person who has that as her symbol the ability to "see" their opponent's movements from any angle or something...that part needs fleshed out.
Okay, the geek symbol has been launched, I now return to what I SHOULD be doing.
4 years ago
2 comments:
very cool idea, Sr. Woodchuck!
That is a pretty cool sounding idear. Hope to see you finish it someday. :)
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